Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder

Description

"Convinced before the onset of Operation "Barbarossa" in June 1941 of both the ease, with which the Red Army would be defeated and the likelihood that the Soviet Union would collapse, the Nazi regime envisaged a radical and far-reaching occupation policy which would result in the political, economic and racial reorganization of the occupied Soviet territories and bring about the deaths of 'x million people' through a conscious policy of starvation. This study traces the step-by-step development of high-level planning for the occupation policy in the Soviet territories over a twelve-month period and establishes the extent to which the various political and economic plans were compatible."--Publisher's website.

First Sentence

The power struggles and overlapping functions inherent in the National Socialist administrative and governmental 'system' can have no better example than that of 'the East' - an all-inclusive reference to the lands east of Germany, initially in particular Poland, but from 1941 onwards almost exclusively used to allude to the seemingly endless reaches of the Soviet Union, stretching from Germany's eastern border, beyond the Ural Mountains to the Orient.

Subjects

Series Statement

• Studies on War and Genocide

Other Editions

• Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder: Political and Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941HardcoverBerghahn Books2006-09-30
• Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass MurderBerghahn Books, Incorporated2006-01-01
• Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass MurderBerghahn Books, Incorporated2006-01-01
• Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass MurderBerghahn Books, Incorporated2011-01-01